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Those three great blue herons* are still around.
While eating my lunch I just watched them glide past the kitchen window in tight formation, circle the field to the north, and eventually glide right in to the shelter belt of immature pines at the no… more →
Walnut Diary
Birds and Beasts
wrote 1 month ago: Just some set pics from Claire Dix’ short film Birds and Beasts which was screened at the Made … more →
Those three great blue herons* are still around.
wrote 2 months ago: While eating my lunch I just watched them glide past the kitchen window in tight formation, circle t … more →
Pinfeathers!
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wrote 3 months ago: Saturday for the first time in thirty years I took out my shotgun for the opening day of migratory b … more →
A trio of herons
wrote 3 months ago: These three great blue herons keep turning up in meadows around the area. This afternoon I saw them … more →
Zeke, again
wrote 5 months ago: Tony and I were standing in the yard today looking down over the field where Bill Barrett was raking … more →
Fight or flight: a note from the old house
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wrote 5 months ago: Bet stayed in town last night to finish some things up in the other house. She sent this along this … more →
More trouble with Daphne
wrote 6 months ago: In an email retired MNR guy Brian Anderson suggested I protect my walnut seedlings by putting out a … more →
E.T.
wrote 6 months ago: Sunday afternoon Bet called me to the back of the house: “Something is making a distress call out t … more →
Bambi
wrote 6 months ago: Quite a show here this afternoon: Bet heard something making distress calls and wandered down into t … more →
The trouble with Daphne
wrote 6 months ago: Daphne came into our lives when she was abandoned the day her mother gave birth to a new fawn behind … more →
The Common Loon
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wrote 8 months ago: In an English text a few years ago I came across Margaret Laurence’s Loons, which traces the l … more →
The long goodbye
wrote 8 months ago: She lies and sleeps, utterly still on her bed and we tiptoe around the house so as not to disturb he … more →
Coyotes I Have Known
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wrote 12 months ago: Margaret Brand’s “Coyote population still on the rise” in the January 8 edition of … more →
Yarns I have heard while fishing
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wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes the best yarns come from quiet guys. Paul’s a prime example. A polite, fastidious … more →
Half a Nest
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wrote 1 year ago: A few years ago a cow in our pasture worked the cover off a Wood-Miser left unattended overnight. T … more →
How to cook a splake
wrote 1 year ago: Martin and Vanya are Phd. students in the Queen’s Biology Department. They have taken quite a … more →
Thanksgiving Visitors
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wrote 1 year ago: As I passed by the kitchen window Thanksgiving morning I noticed a young coyote lying in the orchar … more →
The Coyote Under the Apple Tree
wrote 1 year ago: As I passed by the kitchen window today a brownish object was where it shouldn’t be in the orc … more →
The Allegory of Sarah the Squirrel
wrote 1 year ago: She burst into our consciousness a week ago when she chased my wife out of the garage. This splendid … more →
